The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-02-02
A BIG CLUB OF RICH MEN.
ONLY ELEVEN OTTIIE SENATOR'S ARE
NlILLIOSAIRES.

| Estimates OF the Wealth of the Members
of that iiiuch Abused Body--NIoncy Eags
Wen Filled.
WAsHINGToN, January 20. Whenever
| hear anybody talking about the United
States Senate as n "club OF milionaircS"
| feel like saying, as Senator Joe Brown
said to the newspaper man who asked
INN if he were worth $40, 600, ,G0O.-
"Noung man 81, 900, 600 is IL great deal
of money" The truth is there arc very
lew milllonaircs in the Senate. ] have
Just gono carefully over the list, and out
OF the scvcnty-siX | can only find eleven
milIlOnaircs, and / DO not feel very GER
tam about all Of them. or course one
can mover feel sure about the wealth of
any man in America except that it is
exaggerated by popular report. But
here IS my list: Brown, of Georgia.
Camden, Of West Virginia; Cameron, of
fcnnSyIyana; Fair, of Nevada; Hale, of
Maine; Malone, OF Virginia; Palmer, of
Michigan; Payne, of OHIO; Sawyer, of
Wisconsin; Sherman, OF Ohio, and
Stanford, Of California.
SrA%ruEn >TT!IE Tor or TIE HEAP.
OF these Stanford is by far the richest
Ills wealth is largely Gin sight and may
he safely put, suppose, at S2O,OOO,OO6
chiefly made and chiefly kept in rail
rcnds and real estate. But Stanford can
well he rcckoncd in the dangerous
classes" Next l should say, stands
tMr, and Fair, Flood, Mnckcy and
OBricn whose wealth was and largely is
speculative, but who is rated ut about
SiO,OOo,O 600 bywcll informed men. Then
comes old Joe Brown, OF Georgia, with
hls railroads aud real estate and his coal
mncs, valued by experts at 81, 900.
Payne, OF Ohio, with his real estate and
OIL; Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and
Camden, OF West Virginia, with their
railroads and real estate, arc millionaircs.
TOWARD rnC Esd or TItE Llsr.
Palmer, of Michigan, and SAWYER, of
Wisconsin, with Their lumber and their
real estate, come next, and then rs the
hlc cloScrs / would rank Sherman, with
his real estate, Malone, with his spccu-
mtlvc railway stocks, and Hale, with his
WiieS fortune III the rear. | do not feel
sure tIat Mahonc is entitled to place
III the list OF miluonuircS, although he
lives Hike one; but | feel sure that j Jones',
OF NcVadu, cannot read his tft!c clear to
corner IN this club, in spite Of the
newspaper stories about his success in
the recent SpccUIatiOns III the Comstock
stocks But grant iUr the time that he
Is a uilhonalrc, that Will give us Just IL
round dozen in the Senate. Surely we
cam stand that.
RICH, Eur not MILLIONAIRrS.
But | shall be told that many of the
other slNty-four arc rich men, if not
actually mlllionaircS, and that they
ought to be rcckoncd in, III trial OF the
quo warranto which has been served
upon "thc money bags Of the Senate"
Very well. Let us run through the list.
Aldrch, OF khodc Island, is Il successful
wholesale grocer, but not millionaire.
No, not even half millionaire. He is
sald to be worth a quarter Of million
Perhaps SO, perhaps not. Allison, OF
Iowa, IS charged with a quarter of n
million. hope he has it,
AMONG THE rs.
Beck has had to face the same charge.
He IS generally regarded rs having dis
proved 1t. Beck wCuld like to have
100000 that he could close his fingers
on. Berry, of Arkansas, Blackburn, OF
kentucky, and Blair, of New Hampshire,
haven't together 800, ,OOO-no, nor $2j,
900. And if they had they should spend
1t before the year was out Bowen, OF
Colorado, has one of those mythical
fortunes which are credited one day to a
lucky hit III mining and the next to n
lucky game OF poker. Butler, OF South'I
Carolina, has the family plantation, or
what is left of it.
IS, rs AND E's.
Call has an orange grove or two
Chase OF Rhode Island, has factory,
Sometimes he is rich and sometimes ne
isn't, like all manufacturers. CLANCY, of
New Hampshire, is thrifty and saving,
and is "worth some property" but not
much. Cockrcll, Of Missouri; Coke, OF
Texas; Colquitt, OF Georgin; Conger of
Mchigan; Cuilom, of Illinois, and
Dawes, OF Massachusetts,, have little else
besides their salaries. Dolph, OF Oregon,
was rich until Willard failed, but since
then he has been floating on the plunks
OF his fortune. Edmunds has n good
mouse here, another III Vermont, and
perhaps $lOOOOO saved mp. He lives
much more generously than people gen
orally suppose. And his professional in
come is not so large as is constantly
claimed, and cannot be for the simple
reason that he gives twO-thirds of his
time to his public duties. Eustis, Of
Louisiana, has the remains Of a great
fortune; Eyarts has the clements of n
great fortune, but us both live expensive
ly neither is likely to build an estate.
FURTHER ROLL CALL
Frye has a small property in real estate
and factory; George, of Mississippi, has
his salary, which he saves, 10y the way
with view, | suppose, to that great
wealth which some Senators have Saved
out OF their salaries" Gibson, of Lou.
isiana, has n small fortune; German, of
Maryland, has the nucleus of one; Gray,
OF Delaware, is not n Suspect" Hamp.
ton, of South Carolina, has his home
stead plantation, Haris, of Tennessee,